seattle

^{Discovery Institute
May 24, 2022
Homelessness}

Discovery Institute Welcomes Jonathan Choe as Senior Fellow

_{Discovery Institute
May 24, 2022
Homelessness}

Jonathan Choe, a television journalist with more than two decades of experience, has been named to Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty as a senior fellow. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett and Robert Marbut
March 28, 2022
Homelessness}

Generous Donation Gone to Waste on Bad Homelessness Policy

_{Caitlin Bassett and Robert Marbut
March 28, 2022
Homelessness}

Seattle civic and business leaders have announced a $10 million collaborative effort to tackle the downtown chronic homelessness problem. “It’s the beginning of some good news,” Mayor Bruce Harrell declared when they announced the financial donation. Read More ›

^{Robert Marbut and Caitlin Bassett
March 18, 2022
Homelessness}

Most Cities’ Responses To Homelessness Actually Enable Even More Homelessness

_{Robert Marbut and Caitlin Bassett
March 18, 2022
Homelessness}

If policymakers want to be serious about truly alleviating the suffering of those experiencing homelessness and keeping their streets safe, they need to spend their money wisely on treatment-and-recovery approaches. Read More ›

Dense traffic at night intersection with blurred lights passing through motorbikes and vehicles.

^{Debra J. Saunders
January 30, 2022
Homelessness}

Chaos and Crime Are Not Homeless

_{Debra J. Saunders
January 30, 2022
Homelessness}

The pendulum has to swing back because the progressives’ paradise is paradise no more. Read More ›

Night Time Police Violent Crime Intervention. Police Vehicles with Flashing Lights.

^{Caitlin Bassett
January 28, 2022
Homelessness, Politics}

Some Big Cities Are Coming To Their Senses On Law And Order

_{Caitlin Bassett
January 28, 2022
Homelessness, Politics}

Law and order won big in Seattle last November when Ann Davison was elected city attorney. Other cities seem to also be waking up to the urban decay brought about by lax law enforcement, but leftists are not giving up without a fight. Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
January 12, 2022
Community}

Overwhelmed by Graffiti, Seattle Citizens Step In To Help

_{Caitlin Bassett
January 12, 2022
Community}

Seattle is so overwhelmed by graffiti that it can take the city's five-member task force several weeks to respond to a report of graffiti on public property. Some Seattle citizens have begun spending their own time and money to help clean up their neighborhoods. Read More ›

A homeless man in making a fire from rubbish to keep warm image in landscape format with copy space

^{Caitlin Bassett
September 21, 2021
Homelessness}

Explosion in Ballard: The Fire Hazard of Homeless Encampments

_{Caitlin Bassett
September 21, 2021
Homelessness}

Earlier this summer, two people were found deceased in Seattle after firefighters extinguished 50-foot flames consuming a structure of pallets and tarps within a homeless camp. KOMO News reports that "there have been more than 890 encampment fires reported in Seattle just this year – a record jump." Read More ›

^{Caitlin Bassett
August 30, 2021
Homelessness}

Solutions to Homelessness: Acres of Diamonds in King County, Washington

_{Caitlin Bassett
August 30, 2021
Homelessness}

While Seattle wrestles with its own homelessness problem, a small suburb to the Emerald City’s east has been saving homeless mothers and their children from cycles of abuse, addiction, and homelessness for over twenty years. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
December 18, 2020
Politics}

Indoctrinating An Entire School System in PC Racism

_{Christopher Rufo
December 18, 2020
Politics}

What’s the goal here? Simply put, to transform Seattle schools into activist organizations. At the conclusion of the training, teachers had to explain how they will practice “anti-racist pedagogy,” address the “social-justice movements taking place” and become “anti-racist outside the classroom.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
December 4, 2020
Politics}

The New Untouchables

_{Christopher Rufo
December 4, 2020
Politics}

The poor, in the logic of Seattle’s progressive elites, are thus forced to commit crimes — including violent crimes — to secure their very existence. Therefore, as society is the perpetrator of this inequality, the crimes of the poor must be forgiven. Read More ›